A mass shooting in Lexington, Mississippi after a homecoming football game has left three people dead and eight others injured, authorities say.

Three people were killed and eight others injured by gunfire at a party to celebrate a local school’s football victory at a trail in Mississippi early Saturday, according to the local sheriff.

Three people were killed and at least eight more were injured during a shooting in Mississippi early Saturday morning.

A 22-year-old man has been arrested and charged with murder in connection with three cases in Birmingham, Alabama, last month, including a mass shooting that left four people dead and 17 others wounded in the city’s lively entertainment district,

One person was killed and several others were injured during an "incident" on the campus of Albany State University Saturday night, the school's interim president said.

"It was chaos, to tell you the truth," the sheriff said. "The shooting just started and people started running."

A homecoming celebration turned deadly in Lexington, Miss., as a two men opened fire into a crowd –injuring 8 people and killing three. Two 19-year-olds and one 25-year-old were killed when a spray of bullets riddled the crowd of hundreds that gathered following the Holmes County Consolidated School’s homecoming football game that happened earlier Friday evening.